Best Practices in Vendor and Project Management

Archive for January, 2015

Today’s blog post is not so much a dissertation or opinion piece, but a question.

I’ve been having discussions lately with multiple pharma/biotech clients around the ongoing development of those who cycle into the training dept (as trainers, managers, associate directors, etc.)

Specifically – I know there are a fair number of offerings (including some from LTEN) that focus on training-specific skills – instructional design, facilitation, presentation skills, and the like. I HOPE that many companies are taking advantage of those.

But when it comes to developing “good corporate citizens” who are being effectively developed for positions of greater responsibility, who in our industry has a well-structured and systematic curriculum (say, perhaps, quarterly internal workshops) in place for those in the training department? I’m thinking of skills like this:

Strategic Thinking

Business Writing

Influence without Authority

Negotiation

Communication

Project Management

Time and Priority Management

Professional Networking

Relationship Management

Corporate Business Acumen

What do you have in place? I would really like to know (please send me a message: stevew@impactiviti.com). I get the sense, that, along with on-boarding, there are needs here – maybe we can brainstorm some solutions for your department.

(also – is your own sales training dept. planning for these developmental needs, or is it being done through HR? If the latter – is it effective?)

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Steve Woodruff
President, Impactiviti

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